RisingSTARS Leadership Academy 2015 participant
Powerplay is significant
Boroughs offering
PowerPlay
programming
girls only ages
8 - 18
Program Sites
achieve their dreams.
PowerPlay’s programs for girls and young women seek to stem the decline in confidence that occurs three times more often in girls than boys from elementary school to high school. If girls don’t see it, they won’t do it. Girls miss out on opportunities to learn from positive female role models who look like them.
Using sports as our hook, PowerPlay starts a dialogue, offers the chance for critical and analytical thinking and opens the door to personal, academic and career growth for girls at all stages of their development.
We create opportunities for girls ages 8 through 18
PowerPlay partners with schools and CBOs in NYC to conduct after-school and summer programs that emphasize physical fitness and education.
PowerPlay fills a critical service gap for girls and young women.
Women have made significant progress in the past several decades, yet large numbers of girls, particularly urban girls of color, continue to struggle with issues of identity, with few meaningful, sustained opportunities to develop as leaders.
Self-Management
Ability to make choices and take positive risks and persist through life’s challenges.
Contribution
Capacity to give time and energy to help their family, community and society.
Positive Identity
Internal sense of positive self-worth and self-efficiency as they explore who they are.
Academic Self-Efficiency
Motivation and confidence in academic performance
Social Skills
Ability to take others’ perspectives into consideration as well as express empathy
Social Capital
Positive bonds with people who can provide advice, counsel and access to what they need to succeed.
